A little bit of power leveling..
In the early 2000s, I transferred from a private school to a public high school. In the private school, I don’t recall there being a single student with mental disabilities. There were a handful of kids with physical disabilities who needed a walker or a wheelchair, but I don’t recall there being a single student with mental defects. When I transferred to high school, there were roughly 10 sped kids, some significantly worse than others. They pretty much all stayed together with the same aides & teachers all day so the only time they were really seen was at lunch or in between classes when they would sometimes switch classrooms. They were never integrated into neurotypical kids’ classes. It would’ve done them no good & made things significantly worse for the normal kids.
I don’t have kids so forgive my ignorance, but have public schools started mixing sped kids into normal classes? Idk how the fuck anyone would think that would be beneficial to anyone. Well, except the loud mouth, sped warrior parents who constantly cry “ThEy’Re JuSt LiKe AnY oThEr nOrMaL KiD!!!!!!” yet when it comes down to it, really want preferential treatment for their little spud.
Probably the only good thing I can say about Gwen Hartley is that she kept her brainless goblins out of mainstream school, although tons of resources have been wasted on every therapy under the sun that doesn’t have a chance in hell of being beneficial. I know one time Gwen had posted something about how a teacher/tutor comes over every week to homeschool. Someone posted a comment asking how the teacher came up with lesson plans & evaluated the girls’ mental capabilities. Gwen snapped back something along the lines of “She just knows! We don’t need a paper to tell us how awesome & smart they are!!”